Quotes By Barry Gibb

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

I don't want to live on past records.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

I'm very much a family person.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.